Assessment
Caselets – Qualitative Assessment – Pre and Post
Creative Behaviour Test
Creativity Quiz
Creativity Quiz
Caselets – Qualitative Assessment – Pre and Post
I) Bumble bee
According to recognised aerodynamic tests, the bumble bee cannot fly because
of its body weight in proportionate to its total wing areas. The bumble bee does
not know this. So he goes ahead and flies any way.
1) What are all the inferences we can draw from this?
2) In the context of innovation, which is more relevant?
II) Newspaper Article
“A widely quoted article from Toronto ‘Sun’ newspaper demonstrates: IBM has
decided to have some parts made in Japan and in the specifications they set a
quality level of three defects per 10,000 for the job. When they took delivery there
was an accompanying letter which said, “We Japanese have hard time
understanding American business practices. However, the three defective parts
per 10,000 have been manufactured and included in the dispatch and are
wrapped separately. Hope this satisfies your requirements.”
1) What are all the inferences you can draw from the above news item?
2) In the context of innovation, which is more relevant?
III) Assignments
1) Take any one item of our daily use / daily Sinteraction like shoes, cup, pen,
newspaper, road, bus etc. Suggest five improvements that would make the
life more comfortable
2) Suppose you are gifted with an extra hand (over and above the two you
already have.) Think how advantageously you can use it. List down at least
six ideas.
3) Write the autobiography of a shoe.
4) Have a conversation with a fish.
5) Suppose the salary is same for everyone in an organisation, starting from the
chief executive to the lowest level staff. What would be the consequences?
Would you like / dislike such a policy? Why?
6) Suppose you become the opposite sex. How would you feel?
7) How would you communicate messages to a group which consists of blind,
deaf and dumb people?
8) Suggest four more exercises like the ones listed above
Creative Behaviour Test
Read the following statements and answer:
(1) Mark .A.-if you agree more often
(2) Mark .C. - if you disagree more often
(3) Mark .B. - for all other answers i.e. if you do not know or if it is not relevant to you
or if you partly agree, partly disagree etc.
Answer frankly. Your spontaneous response is the right answer.
Don’t try to guess as how a creative person might respond to each
statement.
1. People often say that you are some what absentminded.
2. You feel that a logical step approach is better for solving problems.
3. People who seem unsure and uncertain about things lose your respect.
4. You spend a great deal of time thinking about what others think of you.
5. You are able to stick with difficult problems over extended periods of time.
6. On occasions you get overly enthusiastic about things.
7. You often get your best ideas when doing nothing in particular.
8. You sometimes get a kick out of breaking the rules and doing things you are not
supposed to.
9. You like hobbies that involve collecting things.
10. Daydreaming has provided the key for many of your important projects.
11. You have a high degree of aesthetic sensitivity.
12. You like people who are very sure of their conclusions.
13. Inspiration has nothing to do with the successful solution of a problem.
14. You resent situations uncertain and unpredictable.
15. You feel that people who strive for perfection are unwise.
16. You prefer to work with others in a team effort rather than solo.
17. You like work in which you have to influence others.
18. It is important for you to have a specific place for everything and everything in its
place.
19. Writers who use strange and unusual words merely want to show off.
20. The trouble with many people is that they take things too seriously.
21. If you have to choose another occupation other than your present one, you would
rather be a physician than an explorer.
22. In evaluating information, its source is more important to you than the content.
23. Many problems that you encounter in life cannot be resolved in terms of right or
wrong solutions.
24. You rather enjoy fooling with new ideas, even if there is no practical pay off.
25. People who express their feelings and emotions are either unstable or immature.
26. When someone tries to get ahead of you in a queue, you usually point it out to
him.
27. Things that you have accepted as old and familiar sometimes appear to you as
strange and distant.
28. To be regarded as a good team member is important to you.
29. You were very happy in your childhood.
30. You can get along more easily with people if they belong to about the same
social
and business class as yourself.
Creativity Quiz
Quiz 1
Answer True (T) or False (F)
1) Right brain always starts the work
2) A problem need not be a botheration
3) Creativity is converting an idea in to reality
4) Left brain is not important to us
5) There is always more than one solution for all the problems
Quiz 2
Answer True (T) or False (F)
1) You don’t have to analyse known, simple problems for finding solutions
2) Proactiveness is facilitated by routinised life
3) Lack of flexibility means lack of rigidity
4) Mental blocks are due to the non-functioning of right brain
5) Vertical thinking is essential for life
Quiz 3
Answer True (T) or False (F)
1) Problem solving is a logical process, so there is no place for creativity
2) In the technique ‘Force Field Analysis’ we look at the problem from the
customers’ point of view
3) The technique ‘SCAMPER’ is not suitable for technical problems
4) We will get new ideas if we have determination
5) Problem Sensitivity is the ability to solve problems in a short span of time
Creativity Quiz
Please read each statement given below and write in the left hand margin the appropriate
number to indicate your option in each statement. Since this is a feedback instrument, be
spontaneous and honest. Don’t try to think as, “How a person should behave?”
Put 6 if you completely agreePut 5 if you strongly agreePut 4 if you moderately agreePut 3 if you moderately disagreePut 2 if you strongly disagreePut 1 if you completely disagree1 I dislike unfamiliar situations
2 There is a great danger in giving up our old customs and traditions
3 I can predict the behaviour of a person if I know his social background
4 I prefer to give up when I hear that a task is too difficult
5 You can’t be called mature unless you can really control your emotions
6 I don’t think I have any very distinctive skills outside my area of specialization
7 I like to make friends mostly with those who appreciate me
8 I resist expressing tenderness towards others
9 If you don’t plan your holidays in detail, you just end up wasting time and
money
1
0
Parents know best what occupations their children should pursuer
1
1
You can make out what people are like by noticing the way they dress
1
2
I don’t like to compete with strong opponents
1
3
I rather dislike sad movies
1
4
At work or studies I generally don’t share problems with colleagues and seek
their guidance
1
5
I really dislike any criticism levelled against me
1
6
I have very little interest in flower arrangements and the like
1
7
I prefer a boss who tells precisely what I am supposed to do
1
8
Women should not dress like men and vice versa
1
9
I am more comfortable after I have classified a person
2
0
I dislike being compared to others
2
1
No matter what choice of food I have in a restaurant, I like to order the same
old favourites
2
2
I don’t think Third World countries have the resources to catch up with the First
2
3
I dislike subordinates trying to be familiar with me
2
4
Giving in to the pleasure of the body detracts from high thinking
2
5
I can’t stand meeting without a clear prior agenda
2
6
Premarital sex is immoral
2
7
Necessities must always have priority over artistic matters
2
8
I hate to lose at games
2
9
I have never bothered myself with modern art
3
0
I don’t think I can do well in a job or occupation very different from my present
one
3
1
I feel tense communicating with persons who have greater authority than I
3
2
I can’t be bothered with questions such as “What would happen if birds had
brains like humans and humans had wings like birds?”
3
3
I hate confusion
3
4
One must fulfill one’s social obligations at any cost
3
5
People in the same profession have similar personalities
3
6
In a meeting, I don’t speak up unless I am an expert on a point
3
7
A pound of imagination is not worth an ounce of facts
3
8
One can accomplish little with out the support of the authorities
3
9
I don’t like being contradicted in the presence of others
4
0
I don’t like to go to serious plays or movies
